The Washington-Baltimore Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group (WBMSDG) is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2019 Young Investigator Travel Awards. Awards will be granted to outstanding young investigators at the undergraduate or graduate student level to support travel to the 67th ASMS Conference in Atlanta, GA. Undergraduate and graduate students in laboratories and institutions traditionally associated with the WBMSDG in the following geographic regions are encouraged to apply: Richmond and Charlottesville, VA to the South and Newark, DE to the North. Three awards will be given. 1st place: $500, 2nd place: $400, 3rd place: $200.

The deadline for applications is 5:00 PM EST on Monday, April 26th, 2019. A panel of WBMSDG members will act as reviewers. Successful applicants will be expected to give a 10-minute oral presentation at the post-ASMS WBMSDG meeting on June 17th, 2019 at Shimadzu Scientific in Columbia, MD.

Congratulations to the following recipients of the WBMSDG Young Investigator Travel Awards

Linwen Zhang, The George Washington University (Advisor: Akos Vertes), 1st place: “Metabolite, Lipid, and Peptide Analysis of Single Neurons of Known Function in Lymnaea stagnalis by Capillary Microsampling Mass Spectrometry”